Privacy Policy

 Program and App Privacy Policy

My computer programs for desktop and apps for mobile devices do not send or receive data automatically from the Internet and they never sends any of your personal information to the programmer or any advertising entities. The user can initiate an operation where limited information is sent via the Internet to a third party. These operations are limited to: (1) uploading or downloading information to/from the users existing account at the StraboSpot database (https://strabospot.org). (2) If the user is using an online elevation server to retrieve elevations, the latitude and longitude of the currently selected datum will be sent to the selected elevation server in order to retrieve the elevation at that coordinate location. No additional data are sent. (3) If the user opens a Map or Satellite View Window, the latitude and longitude at the center of the selected data are sent to Google or Apple to request the display of satellite images at that location. Your structural data are never sent to Google, only a single latitude-longitude pair. 

In all of these cases, the program and programmer have no control over what StraboSpot, MapQuest or other elevation server, Apple, or Google do with the information sent to them and once initiated, that information is subject to their individual privacy policies. In the case of StraboSpot, personally identifying information must be sent to the site in order for the user to login to their account. In the cases of MapQuest and Google, my programs only send the single latitude-longitude pair and a key that identifies the request as coming from one of my programs. No other information is sent, although I assume that both websites log IP addresses.

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